Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said: "The United States is not planning to go to war with Iran. To suggest anything to the contrary is simply wrong, misleading and mischievous."
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Feb. 26, 2007 -- NEW YORK -- DESPITE the Bush Administration insisting that it does not intend to go to war with Iran, a Pentagon panel has been created to plan a bombing attack that could be implemented within 24 hours of getting the go-ahead from President George Bush.
The special planning group was established in the office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in recent months, according to an unidentified former U.S. intelligence official cited in the latest issue of The New Yorker magazine by investigative reporter Seymour Hersh.
The panel initially focused on destroying Iran's nuclear facilities and on regime change but has more recently been directed to identify targets in Iran that may be involved in supplying or aiding militants in Iraq, according to an air force adviser and a Pentagon consultant, who were not identified.
The consultant and a former senior intelligence official said that U.S. military and special-operations teams had crossed the border from Iraq into Iran in pursuit of Iranian operatives.
In response to the report, Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said: "The United States is not planning to go to war with Iran. To suggest anything to the contrary is simply wrong, misleading and mischievous."
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